Uganda

Our work in Uganda

JRS Uganda has well-established projects welcoming urban refugees. JRS offers language classes and other educational and recreational initiatives, income-generating activities, emergency aid, and social services.

Education
Students attending classes at Pagirinya secondary school for refugees and locals, Adjumani, northern Uganda
Education
Livelihoods
Refugees attending a JRS livelihoods training in Uganda
Livelihoods
Psychosocial Support
JRS Ethiopia: Somali refugees perform traditional dances in the Dollo Ado camp, Ethiopia
Psychosocial Support
Emergency Assistance
The Adi Harush camp is not equipped to handle the new number of refugees, and there is enormous pressure on the provision of shelter, water, latrines, food rations, and non-food items.
Emergency Assistance

See our work

Women's group therapy in 2020.
Burial training for religious leaders.
JRS Uganda
Children at the Day Care center giving some money they collected to a vulnerable neighbor.
Books and sanitary pads distribution for JRS sponsored female students in secondary classes.

Stories





Displaced youth celebrate unity through a football match in Uganda 21 Nov 2023
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Meet Serge, a refugee and pen artist drawing sketches of his future 26 Sep 2023
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Making a living out of a passion: a refugee artist tells his life story 19 May 2023
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Contact

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